IT Management: Techies Give Thanks for 15 Trailblazers

Techies Give Thanks for 15 Trailblazers

Techies Give Thanks for 15 TrailblazersBy Jeff Cogswell

With Thanksgiving time here, eWEEK Labs analyst Jeff Cogswell has decided to put together a list of people he is thankful for. In addition to family, friends and, of course, readers, he's thankful for the people in this slideshow, and their work in laying the path for the technologies we use today. Without these people, we'd probably still be living in the dark ages, relying on p-mail (carrier pigeon-mail) instead of e-mail. So enjoy this holiday list, which includes a short history lesson.

Jeff Cogswell is the author of Designing Highly Useable Software (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0782143016) among other books and is the owner/operator of CogsMedia Training and Consulting.Currently Jeff is a senior editor with Ziff Davis Enterprise. Prior to joining Ziff, he spent about 15 years as a software engineer, working on Windows and Unix systems, mastering C++, PHP, and ASP.NET development. He has written over a dozen books.